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Controversial Statue of Fallen Navy Seal Unveiled (gun was controversial!)
Fox 31 ^ | July 4 | Staff

Posted on 07/04/2007 12:26:20 PM PDT by PghBaldy

The city of Littleton will unveil a controversial statue honoring a fallen Navy Seal.

Danny Dietz was killed in Afghanistan.

His family here in Colorado raised enough money to put up a bronze sculpture in Berry Park, to honor him and other war heroes.

Earlier this year some neighbors objected to the statue because it shows Dietz holding an automatic rifle.

The ceremony unveiling the statue was scheduled to happen at 11:00 a.m. MDT Wednesday morning.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Colorado; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; banglist; dietz; fallen; oef; specialforces; statue; tribute
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These people who were upset are idiots. God Bless America and God Bless the men and women like this young man.
1 posted on 07/04/2007 12:26:21 PM PDT by PghBaldy
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Maybe they think he should have been portrayed eating a cream puff and drinking a diet Coke.

What boobs. Gag!!!!

2 posted on 07/04/2007 12:37:35 PM PDT by Turret Gunner A20
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To: PghBaldy

Damn! Soldiers carry rifles? Who’s responsible for this outrage!!!


3 posted on 07/04/2007 12:43:41 PM PDT by ontap (Just another backstabbing conservative)
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To: PghBaldy

Even Fox had a bimbo asking folks whether they were offended at the gun. Disgusting.


4 posted on 07/04/2007 12:44:42 PM PDT by umgud ("When illegals are banned, only greedy businesses and welfare providers will have them)
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To: umgud; patton; Cyber Liberty; neverdem; Howlin; MHGinTN
You know - IF ANYBODY (OTHER than the two homosexual Satanists who were shooting people!) had an assault rifle at Columbine, the many Christians who were being shot would have been saved.
5 posted on 07/04/2007 12:47:43 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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“Earlier this year some neighbors objected to the statue because it shows Dietz holding an automatic rifle.”

Jackasses one and all. I suppose he could have been armed with a tulip.


6 posted on 07/04/2007 12:48:52 PM PDT by headstamp (Nothing lasts forever, Unless it does.)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

I was not there, I can only speculate.


7 posted on 07/04/2007 12:50:22 PM PDT by patton (19yrs ... only 4,981yrs to go ;))
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To: umgud

Fox News Channel isn’t conservative: “Even employees of Fox News, which is widely regarded as a conservative channel, donate 81 percent of their contributions to Democrats.”

http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/coulter070407.php3


8 posted on 07/04/2007 12:51:10 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: umgud
Up in Magog, Quebec, there's a beautiful bronze statue of a Canadian WWI soldier carrying an Enfield 303.

It's so detailed it looks as if the soldier is going to take a step forward, and as if the Enfield is ready to fire.

My grandfather went up to Canada to enlist to fight in WWI as the US Army wouldn't take him due to a repaired hernia.

He was a civil engineer in the Canadian Army.

Any time one wants to see what his uniform and gear looked like, just have to drive up to the center of Magog.

The morons in Littleton CO who can't stand even the likeness of a gun need to get a life.

9 posted on 07/04/2007 12:51:41 PM PDT by Mogger (Independence, better fuel economy and performance with American made synthetic oil.)
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To: PghBaldy

My brother who lives in Littleton just got back from the park, where he placed an American Flag by the statue. :)


10 posted on 07/04/2007 1:01:15 PM PDT by Ros42
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To: PghBaldy
But guns are obscene pornography (to Leftists.) And based on Supreme Court precedents, there is no First Ammendment protection against pornography that is obscene--especially when it's easily seen by children.

The language of the First and Second Ammendments is absolute. "Congress shall make no law..." "The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." The exceptions to those statements are all inventions of activist judges. Letting judges get away with such dishonesty gives them license to to do it again, whenever they wish, with impunity. We will suffer the unintended consequences of such judge-created exceptions ever more painfully as time goes on.

Rights that are not both equal and reciprocal have no solid foundation. Their internal logical contradictions eventually lead to their dissolution.

11 posted on 07/04/2007 1:15:44 PM PDT by sourcery (Anthropogenic Global Warming: A convenient lie designed to establish socialism by fear and deception)
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So, the leftist fools object to tools of the tradecraft which keeps US free ... okay, let the bastards leave for others countries to infest, like France or Venezuela or Iran. Thanks be to God for men who will learn the craft to keep US free.
12 posted on 07/04/2007 1:25:57 PM PDT by MHGinTN (You've had life support. Promote life support for those in the womb.)
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The people who are ‘upset’ need to get a life.

I guess if America were ever invaded thtey’d not want our troops our ourselves to defend the country.

Newsflash: Soldiers carry weapons. Without their weapons they’d just be playing dress-up.

GROW UP People.

Good grief.


13 posted on 07/04/2007 1:38:03 PM PDT by Shadowstrike (Be polite, Be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
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To: Ros42

Thank your brother for us!


14 posted on 07/04/2007 1:40:38 PM PDT by BlessedBeGod
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To: PghBaldy

“Earlier this year some neighbors objected to the statue because it shows Dietz holding an automatic rifle.”

I’m offended by types like these who would be offended.
Can I ask that they are asked to move to another country?


15 posted on 07/04/2007 1:44:10 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Never bring a knife to a gun fight, or a Democrat to do serious work...)
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To: PghBaldy

Stupid, stupid liberals.


16 posted on 07/04/2007 1:46:02 PM PDT by Lee'sGhost (Crom! Non-Sequitur = Pee Wee Herman.)
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I guess we had better take down the Iwo Jima memorial--some of those guys have rifles on their backs that might offend someone.
17 posted on 07/04/2007 2:00:07 PM PDT by kabar
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My hometown has a war memorial statue of a soldier holding a rifle. At the base of the statue is a small garden area. The keepers of the garden occasionally spell out a word with the flowers. Back along it said “Peace.” Bad enough but they followed that a year or so later with “Recycle.” Not sure what that has to do with the theme.


18 posted on 07/04/2007 2:11:59 PM PDT by NewHampshireDuo (Earth - Taking care of itself since 4.6 billion BC)
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To: PghBaldy

I watched the unveiling of this statue today on FoxNews. It was fine, beautiful and very moving. Fox interviewed a young boy during the ceremony - maybe 10 to 12 years old - and he said he had no problem with the soldier holding a gun. This young man is more intelligent than those opposing the gun. God Bless our military and God Bless America.


19 posted on 07/04/2007 2:15:54 PM PDT by maxwellp
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To: NewHampshireDuo; Millee; carlr; Maximus of Texas; EX52D; StephenTX; wallcrawlr; Auntbee; ...
Re: The keepers of the garden occasionally spell out a word with the flowers. Back along it said “Peace.” Bad enough but they followed that a year or so later with “Recycle.” Not sure what that has to do with the theme.

Simple... Kill the Islamic Terrorists, put their bodies inside hogs skins, bury them and watch the flower bloom!

20 posted on 07/04/2007 2:19:59 PM PDT by Bender2 (A 'Good Yankee' comes down to Texas, then goes back north. A 'Damn Yankee' stays... Damn it!)
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